Word: driftings
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Sometime during the second quarter of the Army game, the Notre Dame-SMU contest started to come over the black-and-white receiver. Gradually, despite the fact that the sound for the regular set was not turned on, the crowd's attention began to drift away from the Army game...
...painful shyness, Louis Finkelstein was never backward when he had a cause. In order to counteract the drift of Brownsville away from the Torah, he and Sol Goldman launched an intense juvenile crusade - buttonholing youngsters, speaking on street corners, organizing study clubs, and lining up pledges to observe the Sabbath...
President Conant last week lashed out at the current manpower drift away from pure sciences...
President Conant last week lashed out at the current manpower drift away from pure sciences...
...life has combined elegance with fastidious aloofness from the rougher realities. The son of a minor Italian nobleman, as a boy he preferred botany to ball games. He was tutored at home. In 1925, after his father had died, leaving him a small legacy, he headed for Paris, to drift casually through its salons and cafes. In 1940 he moved to Venice, where he became a familiar sight, plying the canals in his huge gondola, a parrot perched on his shoulder, the words "fleur de misere" (flower of misery) printed in red across the chest of his heavy navy-blue...